generally. From the beginning to the end it has been the same. They do not destroy machinery now as they did a few years ago; but, during the strike at Huddersfield, in 1883, the Weavers' Union wanted to compel the masters to agree not to "introduce any new machinery until the Union had tested it, the object being to tell the men not to work at it if likely to be prejudicial to their interests." - Another demand was that "no apprentices" should be taken except from among their own children. And the origin of the strike was: a manufacturer had discharged some men for being incompetent, and the Union wrote him that, "unless he took them on again, all his men would be withdrawn." Is this the class that has helped the nation onward? Is this the class to whom we are to look for our forward progress? No! For our sake, for their sake, for the world's benefit, working men must be told the truth. Their part in the world's labour has been overrated, and the part taken by scientists, inventors, the skilled brains to direct and manage (putting aside altogether the question of capital), has been under-estimated. For the benefit alike of rich and poor, we must recognize "that nations advance by new knowledge," and that the public welfare is dependent upon the nation's mental and moral advancement, which depends upon new ideas, and the chief source of new ideas is original research. Why has this nation made such rapid progress during -the last century? Principally by the subservience to useful purposes, by means of invention, of the new truths discovered by scientific men, which has enabled us to utilize our abundant stores of coal and iron-ore